Sound Off for Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014

It sure would be nice if we had some yellow lines for the turn lanes on all of the roads going north and south leading to Superior Street in Alma. The turn lanes are almost impossible to see. Hopefully we didn’t run out of yellow paint and that something can be done about this to make our town more safe and look better.

Alma

The 2009 Jeep Wrangler that’s been in the paper for so long and priced about $10,000 too high must be getting pretty rusty by now.

St. Louis

This is a shout out to Rep. Peter Konetchy’s campaign. He has left several campaign signs that are still up in Ithaca. The election is over. Whoever put them up needs to come take them down. There still up except for the one that was placed illegally. There was one placed in the city of Ithaca’s Woodland Park. It’s illegal to put campaign signs on public property. I did ask the city to take that one down, but the other ones are still up. This is not a garbage dump.

Ithaca

If you want to get educated on political issues you need to tune into the Thom Hartmann show on XM radio, channel 127, and also on satellite Dish TV, he’s on channel 9415. Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity; that whole bunch are not going to educate you on the issues, but Thom Hartmann will. He covers all the bases. A very intelligent man; very interesting, very knowledgable.

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Weidman

You’re right, Mr. Forrest, it seems to be human nature that we’re never content with what we have on our own plate. Once we have something it is of less importance to us than when we didn’t have it. Now that we have it our focus is not on enjoying our once coveted item, but rather refocusing on what we don’t have. We always want what’s on the plate of others. And I agree with you now gays and lesbians are no longer content with their own plates, but rather coveting that which has been on the plate of heterosexuals since the beginning of time. Can’t we learn to want what we have?

No city given

So now couples are having kids so we can support them on welfare. What are they going to do about that? I know child support won’t fix that because they’re living together anyway.

St. Louis

I’m watching the evening news and I’m glad to see that somebody has some intelligence and shows a little bit of guts. Gov. Rick Perry is trying to secure the borders. That’s something Obama wouldn’t do.

Mt. Pleasant

It’s ironic that the legislature is willing to return from their vacation to try to thwart the voter’s rights to decide on wolf hunting, but they’re unwilling to work on fixing our roads.

Mt. Pleasant

In Thursday’s Sound Off a caller says that the Central American children cannot be deported without an immigration hearing because of a law signed by George W. Bush in 2008. Well, why doesn’t Obama use his executive privileged and just say that law is null and void just like he does with everything else?